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By Jonathan Stempel July 8 (Reuters) - Less than a year after Hurricane Sandy devastated the New Jersey shore, the state's highest court made it easier for cities and towns to avoid paying costly compensation to homeowners whose water views were blocked by the building of sand dunes. The New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday overturned a $375,000 jury award to a couple who complained that a dune built before the storm to help protect their home had blocked their panoramic beach front and ocean view.

GamerHub.tv "Spec Ops: The Line" is a surprisingly beautiful game. A game about a city ravaged by dust storms may not seem visually appealing at first thought, but "Spec Ops: The Line" proves that dirt can be beautiful. The game's settings include sand dunes, beautifully detailed buildings and a mixture of the two. Getting caught in a sandstorm during battle is a visual delight and the sound and visuals will cause you to squint your eyes and lean closer to the monitor to pull off that last headshot.

* Environmental fight over Trump's Scottish golf resort * Film shows Trump pitted against hardy local residents By Christine Kearney NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) - British filmmaker Anthony Baxter learned the hard way what it would take to make his debut feature documentary: Getting arrested, re-mortgaging his house for funding and personally phoning cinema houses to screen his film. Those might seem like familiar hardships to documentary makers. But add to that mix taking on U.S. business magnate Donald Trump over a proposed $1.5 billion golf and hotel resort in Scotland, and Baxter hesitates when asked whether he would do it once more.

* "Right thing" for conservation and economy - Salazar * Reaction mixed from environmentalists By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO, June 13 (Reuters) - U.S. officials ruled on Wednesday that a tiny lizard would be kept off the endangered species list after agreements with Texas and New Mexico landowners intended to protect its habitat and preserve oil and gas production in the region. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ruling that the 3-inch-long (7.5-cm) dunes sagebrush lizard is not endangered ends years of effort by landowners in the region including oil companies and ranchers to keep it off the list.

BANDON, Ore. — The first question my caddie asked was this: "How's your ball flight?" Instantly I knew this would be nothing like I've encountered in 15 years of golf. I have played desert courses in Arizona such as Starr Pass, the lakeside Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, the picturesque Kapalua in Maui and tree-lined Chicago-area layouts such as Medinah. The Bandon Dunes experience, as it turned out, would exceed all of them. Where else, thanks to the wind and varying topography, do you summon a 6-iron for a 131-yard par 3 and then, shortly after, discover that a 3-wood you hit off the tee traveled 298 yards?

An elevator I boarded the other day on the way to work was decked out wall to wall, floor to ceiling, with a panoramic image of sand dunes. For the 30 seconds or so it took to deliver me to my destination, I stood on an imagined beach. I heard the cries of gulls, felt salt air breezes, the warmth of sun on my skin. The tourism promoters that provided this moment of pleasure no doubt hoped the experience would prompt me to book a flight to their beachfront destination. That's not going to happen, but I wouldn't hesitate to ride that elevator again.

A cave that two brothers were digging into the side of a sand dune collapsed, killing the youngest boy, authorities said. The 10-year-old boy and his brother were tunneling under a 40-foot cypress tree at California's crowded Salmon Creek State Beach on Sunday, fire officials said. The older boy was partially buried but was able to dig himself out, and he ran for help, officials said.

Michele Kuder talks about the Indiana beach she loves. "I grew up here, before it was national lakeshore," she says. "You've got beautiful sand and really nice dunes, a couple of cliffy-looking things, a bunch of rocks ... " Glenn Stutzky has been coming to his favorite beach in Michigan for 20 years. "It's kind of like a little secret tucked away here," he says. "A little gem." Jason Martens is still dripping as he talks about a Wisconsin beach unlike any other. "Great beach.

Mikkel Hansen's guest house is tucked away in the woods on a sand dune. Built on eight posts, it is surrounded by mature trees. The house, which recently won an award from the conservation group Preserve the Dunes, was designed to protect the fragile dune environment. Hansen was one of four architects who recently won the awards for building houses in southwest Michigan that minimize impairment of the dunes. "The reason we had the competition was there is so much construction going on the lake, with people tearing down houses and building new houses, that there does not seem to be a lot of sensitivity to what's there," said Charles Davis, president of Preserve the Dunes Inc. and principal of Davis Associates Architects and Consultants Inc. of Chicago.